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What do you do when you self-publish your part and, within a year put up to sale over 40,000 copies? You help others with the same dream that may not know in what manner to achieve success. That's what s James Guitard, author of Chocolate conception and one of the partners of Literally Speaking Publishing House, did.

"I in no degree looked at this as self-publishing. I joined with a not many others to form a company, common that could rival the mainstream houses. We published my work first, wanting to have succes behind us when we approached other authors," says Guitard. Literally Speaking's goal is to provide a publishing opportunity to authors who may not generate interest from mainstream houses.

"There are many writers on the outside there who have top-notch brews But it's not easy to achieve the eye of a publisher," says Guitard. "And, there are suitable writers who don't have the permanent funds or the know-how to do it themselves. That's where we originate in. We want to evolve bestsellers." Literally Speaking is a royalty publisher providing the same support as mainstream publishers. "From advances, to the printing, editing, promotion--we do it all." Literally Speaking has attracted the attention of published authors, and is in negotiation with several quintessence best-selling authors.

Guitard is single in kind of several authors who have favorably self-published and then opened the doors for others. author of poems Kwame Alexander is another writer who had publishing in his relations "I've been in this since I was eight," Alexander said referring to to what degree he worked in his father's publishing company. "I didn't want to have anything to do with publishing." on the contrary in 1995, Alexander founded BlackWords Press

"I published my work Just Us: Poems and Counterpoem as a way to learn the business." To date, BlackWords Pres has published ten main division s with plans to publish four novel books each year. "One of our major concocts is with a reporter for the Baltimore day-star Dion Thompson's Walk Like A Natural Man is the greatest in number phenomenal novel I've ever read," Alexander says. "This will be our largest investment to date." BlackWords Pres is also a royalty publisher that pays advances and all costs "We want well-written, good stories that we can be passionate about."

Linda Dominique Grosvenor, author of the serf-published work, Sometimes I shout started her company, Sadorian Publishing in 2000 "When I realized for what cause difficult it was to come by published, I knew there were many whose works would not at all see the light of day. I had to provide this opportunity."

Sadorian has been auspicious One of their works, hiddens of a Gingerbread Man, was culled by Black Expressions Book cudgel Another, On the Eighth Day She quieted was picked up by St Martin's Pres "Right now, we have eleven titles, and plan to have twelve of recent origin ones next year." Sandorian is also a royalty publisher, providing the standard trade paperback royalties.

Although Guitard, Alexander and Grosvenor are all publishers, they continue to write as well. "You have to detain your number one, number one" says Nina Foxx author of Dippin' My Spoon which was published by dint of her company, Manisy Willows parts With her success, Foxx received a two-book contract from Harper Collins/Avon. "My writing arises first. But I knew I could help others, especially in the area of distribution. After I published, it became more difficult for self-published authors to achieve placement with major distributors. I use my contacts to help recent authors." While many of these publishers have focused forward fiction, Foxx has published the nonfiction work, Do the Write Thing, co-written with Kwame Alexander. She just signed author Sam Um who wrote a screenplay that he adapted into a book

Write the Vision, headed on Maurice Gray, focuses solely upon Christian books. "I had no intention of doing this," says Gray, the author of To Whom often Is Given. "A gentleman from my ecclesiastical authority asked if I would help with his story. from the time we finished, we'd gone from writing the volume to publishing it." Gray published I Didn't Know I'd acquire HIV and released his inferior project Ocean View. "I do the editing, protect design, proofreading, typesetting," he says. "The author has to pay for printing, on the contrary I negotiate the price and find other resources." Gray will do distribution and promotion for a percentage of sales.

Flowers In flush Publishing, owned by Nancey Flowers published the erotic anthology, Twilight tempers featuring stories by mainstream and self-published authors. "I always knew I would be a publisher," says Flowers, the author of A Fool's Paradise. "I had a chance of marketing experience." So Flowers change the direction ofed her expertise into an opportunity for others. "As a publisher, I'm able to give a voice to family who didn't have an audience." Flowers decides what her company will do forward a case-by-case basis. "My publishing company has the capability to handle everything from editing to printing, packaging and promotion. We sit down with each author to determine the best way to proceed"

Zane, individual of the most successful self-published authors, published her first work in the summer of 2001 "We have nine titles, and plan to publish twenty-four each year." (This is in addition to the three volumes a year Zane continues to write.) Like the others, Zane felt that there were many beneficial authors who were overlooked. "I decided to offer my money where my inlet was," says Zane, who also published All That and a Bag of Chips. Zane's succes has landed her a distribution deal with Simon & Schuster where Strebor volumes International will be sold worldwide according to the S&S sales force. As a royalty publisher, Zane is looking for all kinds of manuscripts.